Uber president steps down after less than seven months on the job

Uber Technologies president Jeff Jones has stepped down less than seven months after joining the ride-hailing company.

Jones joined Uber in August after serving as chief marketing officer at the retail giant Target Corp. He was previously executive vice president of marketing at Gap.

Jones resigned in part because his leadership beliefs were "inconsistent with what I saw and experienced at Uber," according to a statement he made to the technology blog Recode, which broke the story. Recode had also reported that Ed Baker, Uber's vice president of product and growth, and Raffi Krikorian, who was helping to lead Uber's self-driving technology efforts, recently quit the company, as well.

Jones is quitting during a tumultuous time at Uber, with controversy stemming from a combination of sexual-harassment allegations within the company as well as bad publicity from both CEO Travis Kalanick's short-lived participation on president Donald Trump's economic advisory board and a February video showing Kalanick verbally assaulting an Uber driver.

"We want to thank Jeff for his six months at the company and wish him all the best," Uber said in a statement Monday.

Jones' resignation comes two weeks after Kalanick said he was searching for a COO for Uber.